From Math Teacher to AI Innovator w/ Jeanette Stein
Flipped Lifestyle™ Podcast
Shane Sams
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, Shane Sams interviews Flipped Lifestyle Hall of Famer Jeanette Stein, one of the earliest and most inspiring success stories from the Flipped Lifestyle community. Jeanette shares her incredible journey from nearly two decades as a math teacher to becoming a successful online entrepreneur. She started by building a math tutoring business and later pivoted to using AI tools to scale her impact even further.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Jeanette's story of transitioning from teaching math for almost 20 years to building an online business.
- How burnout and personal challenges led Jeanette to pursue financial freedom through her math blog and online membership.
- The power of waking up early and dedicating focused time to build a business, even while balancing a family of six.
- How Jeanette leveraged her existing audience of 10,000 subscribers to create a profitable membership that replaced her teaching salary.
- Why AI tools like ChatGPT have become a game-changer for Jeanette, helping her grow her business even faster.
Key Takeaways:
- Success takes consistency—Jeanette built her business from 4 AM to 6 AM every day while raising six children.
- Turning an email list into a source of income can be the key to quitting your 9-to-5 job.
- The importance of community: Jeanette credits the Flipped Lifestyle community for guiding her to launch a successful membership.
- With the availability of AI tools and the right support system, there's never been a better time to start an online business.
Check Out Jeanette's Work: Jeanette now helps entrepreneurs use AI tools to grow their businesses. Learn more about her work at jeanettestein.com.
Join the Flipped Lifestyle Community: Ready to start or grow your online business? Head over to flippedlifestyle.com to learn more about our community and access the Flipped Lifestyle Blueprint.
Make sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a 5-star review! Until next time, get out there, take action, and do whatever it takes to flip your life!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Flip Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. |
| 0:07.1 | We're your host, Shane and Jocelyn Sam. |
| 0:11.0 | We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. |
| 0:15.9 | And now we help other families do the same. |
| 0:19.0 | Are you ready to flip your life? |
| 0:54.9 | All right, let's get started. What's going on? Everybody, welcome back to the flipped lifestyle podcast. Great to be back with you again today. Sitting beside me in the captain's chair is Jocelyn. What's up, Jocelyn? Hi, I'm happy to be here today. And we are really happy because one of our favorite people on the planet, I don't say that about everybody either. I don't say that to all the girls. Only the coolest people. Only the coolest people. And this is an OG Flip Lifestyle Hall of Famer. Jeanette Steins in the house. Hey, Jeanette. Hey, so glad to be here. I've been looking forward to this all week. We've all changed so much in the last decade. We've been running the rows together. |
| 0:59.6 | You know, we have different haircuts now. You're growing your hair out, getting rid. We're getting kids out the door. Like, things are, things are just, life is a train that will not stop in all of our |
| 1:05.7 | lives today. I also have glasses now. I'm not wearing them right. The second, but yeah. |
| 1:10.7 | Since we became entrepreneurs. Yeah. Struggling a little bit in the eyesight department. |
| 1:15.1 | We're at the place where I'm like, it's like I have to look at where the sun is on the horizon, Jeanette, if Jocelyn gets to drive me around at night. Because I'm a little scared of her driving at night. So. Yeah. Happens to the best of us. Happens to the best of it. |
| 1:27.7 | I now have bifocals. You know, it's fine. It's fine. Yeah. I don't want to talk about that. That's why I'm wearing these ugly things because I broke my protocols. So now, like I'm waiting. They're coming tomorrow. As long as we can speak, we can still be entrepreneurs. forget our we we don't need our eyes. We just need to talk. That's all we can type. If we can talk and type. I mean, we have AI now. It's fine. We can talk to it. Yeah. I'm just trying to download as much of myself into the chat GPT as possible. So it just, when I just lose all my faculties, I will still exist in the internet somewhere. That's what I'm trying to do. Well, you did a good job because I was creating a custom |
| 2:02.3 | GPT in your voice for this podcast. And it was the easiest one I've ever created. It knows you. |
| 2:07.1 | It knows you. It was so fun. I'll tell you what's funny about that when we when we |
| 2:13.4 | discovered that chat one of our employees discovered this so um i had i was on the road a lot |
| 2:18.7 | and i delegated out for a while some of our email writing and i was and she was kind of like |
| 2:25.1 | writing letters and then sending them to me for approval and then going back and forth. |
| 2:31.8 | And all of a sudden one day she goes, check this out. |
| 2:35.6 | And I was like, when did I write that? |
| 2:38.3 | Like, I don't remember writing that. |
| 2:40.9 | And she's like, you didn't. |
| 2:42.0 | I asked chat GPT, do you know who Shane Sams is from Flip Lifestyle? |
| 2:44.0 | And it did. |
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